The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-07-11

Description OF LAY Gould's New
travelling Palace.


travelling Palace.
A New York correspondent OF The
81. Louis Republican writes rs follows:
Until three weeks ago Millionaire Jay
Gould has not had the luxury OF having
II private railway car rs his own indi-
vldual property. Heretofore he has
used the Union Pacific Convoy, the
property of the railway company and
reserved for the use Of the president
and directors. but, as u matter OF fact,
used almost exclusively by Mr.. Gould
in his long, flying leaps from one end
OF the continent TO the other. But the
Convoy has been consigned to back
seat now. and in its place has come
fresh from the Pullman shops and re-
splendent in all the glory Of polished
woods and glttering mirrors the
beautiful car Atalanta named for Mr..
Gould's fect-footcd yacht, Mr.. Gould's
private property. The Atalanta was
turned out at Chicago three weeks ago,
and brought to the Pennsylvania rail-
way station in Jersey City, where 1t
now stands. Mr.. Gould has not
vet seen his new purchase. 1t was
complicated Just after he set out on his
recent yachting voyage, and its owner
has not yet had opportunity 10 Inspect
it. The Aialanta is remarkable in that
il is by half foot the longest car
turned out of the Pullman shops. 1t is
70 feet long and weighs $4,000 pounds
The average weight of Pullman cars is
10000 pounds The Atalanta rests on
six-whee trucks, the wheels being OF
paper and forty-two inches in diameter
1t was Mr.. Gould's direction that spec
cial pains should be taken to give the
car strength and steadincss of motion
and everything to this end that mod
crn ingenuity has devised was turned TO
account in its construction.
The interior appointments of the
Atalanta are remarkable for their mas
sive richness and total freedom from
garish display. There is an apartment
eleven feet six inches in length by nine
feet in width. 1t is furnished with two
easy chairs and sofa upholstered in
bronze silk plush, and is covered by
thick velvet carpet. On the sides are
racks for wraps, and over the sofa an
upper berth is tucked away so deity
into the bulkhead as to be hardly no.
ticeablo, but 1t can be let down and
m ado into comfortable bed. The
door out of the observation-room opens
into private bedroom, which in turn
opens by double sliding doors into a
second private bedroom. Both these
rooms are furnished with folding beds
and have private toilet-rooms. When
the sliding doors are thrown open the
room makes handsome parlor. eigh-
teen feet in length by seven in width.
It is finished in satnwood and is uphol-
stored in blue silk plush. The observa-
tion-room is furnished in mahogany.
Back of the private bedroom comes the
dining ROOM finished in heavily-carved
oak and upholstered like the observa-
tion-room in bronze silk plush. The
dining-room is fourteen feet long by
nine in width. In the center is TN oak
en- extension table, and the bulk-hcad
separating it from the next apartment
is richly carved in open spindle work.
The next apartment simply contains on
each side of the car two ordinary Pull
man sleeping berths. After this apart
mont comes toilet-room, y refrigera-
tor, two berths for porter and cook.
and the kitchen. The ends of the car
are furnished with closed platforms.